#our lives

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass? ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom. ↗

— Bob Taft

#faith #family #focus #freedom #friends

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers. ↗

— Estelle Morris

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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

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To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

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Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives. ↗

— Freeman Thomas

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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

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